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Political economy of labor repression in the United States

โœ Scribed by Kolin, Andrew

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Leaves
437
Category
Library
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โœฆ Synopsis

"The role of the state is not be overlooked in its support of elite control over production, as well as aiding through legal means the growth of a capitalist economy in opposition to labor's conception of greater economic democracy. This book explains how and why labor continues to confront repression in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."

โœฆ Table of Contents

The state and the economy after the American Revolution --
Inclusion-exclusion and the growth of American capitalism --
The working class on the defensive : response to workplace exclusion --
Political repression at the workplace --
Post-World War I to the Depression --
The Depression and labor repression --
The labor anti-communism backlash --
Capital and labor during WWII --
Domestic cold war politics and labor repression --
Economic downturns and labor repression from the 1970s.

โœฆ Subjects

Labor -- United States -- History;Labor unions -- United States -- History;Labor policy -- United States -- History;Labor;Labor policy;Labor unions;United States

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